ad-
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| Type: | lexical |
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| Meaning: | 'to; very' |
| Function: | intensifying |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Phonemic analysis: | /ad/- |
| From PIE: | *h₂ed 'to, at' |
| From Proto-Celtic: | *ad- 'to' |
| Attestation: | akluśamoualos, atep, atepa, ateporix, atepu, aśkoneti, aśkonetio, aśmina, aśuesa |
Commentary
The morpheme is frequently attested as first element of Gaulish compound personal names and ethnonyms (Holder 1896–1907 I: 37, KGP: 111–117, GPN: 128–131, DLG: 31, Delamarre 2007: 209 f. et passim, Matasović 2009 s.v., Wodtko 2013: 221 f., Dunkel 2014 II: 9 [*ad]). Cf. OIr. ad- 'to' etc. Its meaning is likely to be 'to' in compounds with verbal or substantive bases, while an intensifying function is common in compounds with adjectives.
Bibliography
| AcS | Alfred Holder, Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, Leipzig: Teubner 1896–1907. |
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| Delamarre 2007 | Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007. |
| DLG | Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003. |
| Dunkel 2014 | George E. Dunkel, Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme, Heidelberg: Winter 2014. |
